No, I'm not declaring the Climate Movement dead.
Partly because I'm not the guy whose job it is to declare that sort of thing, one way or the other. I'm not sure even Ed Morrissey is rated for that job. Larry Elder, maybe?
And as the "Scream" series of movies pointed out, monsters are never really dead until you put them down one last time (and, as the "Friday the Thirteenth" series or the leadership of the World Economic Forum show us, sometimes not even then.
But that cough the Climate Movement has isn't going away.
Tom Nelson tweeted out a digest of other symptoms. And the whole thread is worth a read.
— Tom Nelson (@TomANelson) April 9, 2025
But I thought I'd drill through a few here:
The US Government is done with the scam.
Delicious straight talk from EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin: "we are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion" pic.twitter.com/2W2oG4VX6v
— Tom Nelson (@TomANelson) March 18, 2025
OK, that's the Trump administration. So what else?
How about the winding down of the co-option of science?
The Wall Street Journal purports to have a clearer inside picture “based upon interviews with nearly three dozen people close to Elon Musk, the Trump administration, NASA, lawmakers and SpaceX,” one which comports with my prediction that a shifted critical path emphasis to ambitious human Mars programs will redirect vital funding away from readily expendable climate research and related green energy agendas.
According to the Journal, President Trump announced the appointment soon after Musk reached out to Isaacman, the payments entrepreneur who has flown to orbit with SpaceX and invested in the company asking if he would take the job.
The free market appears to be starting to reject the cult:
A climate startup that boasted a roster of celebrity backers and arranged carbon credits for Meta, Microsoft and other large companies filed bankruptcy https://t.co/5DRULF5Mqv
— Bloomberg (@business) April 1, 2025
And it's not just in gun-totin', beef eatin', Trump-electing Murca, either:
Britain's banks are quietly distancing themselves from Net Zero commitments. Barclays and NatWest have removed climate targets from executive bonuses, signalling a common sense shift in priorities.
— The Heartland Institute UK/Europe (@HeartlandUKEU) February 20, 2025
Is the green agenda losing its grip on the financial sector? pic.twitter.com/AXKqUB0FvS
And, ironically, even those who pointedly reject the market, while not tapping out, are finding it expedient to modify some of their more hysterical and dissociative tactics:
Just Stop Oil’s initial demand to end new oil and gas is now government policy, making us one of the most successful civil resistance campaigns in recent history. We’ve kept over 4.4 billion barrels of oil in the ground and the courts have ruled new oil and gas licences unlawful.
So it is the end of soup on Van Goghs, cornstarch on Stonehenge and slow marching in the streets. But it is not the end of trials, of tagging and surveillance, of fines, probation and years in prison. We have exposed the corruption at the heart of our legal system, which protects those causing death and destruction while prosecuting those seeking to minimize harm. Just Stop Oil will continue to tell the truth in the courts, speak out for our political prisoners and call out the UK’s oppressive anti-protest laws. We continue to rely on small donations from the public to make this happen.
Perhaps most simultaneoulsy damning/encouraging: the lizard monarchs that have been pushing the whole thing for the past couple decades are cooling (as it were) on the whole thing:
"Bill Gates is giving up on climate change as Trump drains the woke out of Washington."
— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) April 7, 2025
"Breakthrough Energy, a joint venture between Bill Gates and a handful of other billionaires... is slashing much of its policy staff... since they feel it would be unlikely to make headway on… pic.twitter.com/ZRPZvwkueh
While future wannabe lizard queen Greta Thunberg's website has been sitting fallow for years.
Long story short: for those of us of a certain age who remember being raised on "overpopulation" hysteria in elementary school - which was being pushed by some of the same people that have brought you "climate change - there's a sense of deja vu:
Shellenberger/Pielke Jr:
— Tom Nelson (@TomANelson) March 26, 2025
“Climate change is going to fade from view like overpopulation did”
"Lack of protests over Trump’s action on energy shows how little anyone every really cared about global warming pic.twitter.com/OMr4GVjcEM
That's eight symptoms. Which leaves you 28 to read for yourself.
